As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 3

Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, [meeting]: The point of adding "meeting" to the stage direction is to remind us that Orlando and Adam do not enter together. Because he has no place else to go, Orlando has come home to his brother's house, and the first person he encounters is Adam, his brother's servant.

4. old Sir Rowland: Sir Rowland de Boys (deceased) was Orlando's father and Adam's first master. what make you here?: what are you doing here? 5. virtuous: full of good qualities. 6. gentle: gentlemanly; well-mannered and refined. 7. fond to: foolish as to. 8. bonny priser: sturdy prize-fighter. humorous: moody, capricious.

4Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?5Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?6And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?7Why would you be so fond to overcome8The bonny priser of the humorous duke?9Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.10Know you not, master, to some kind of men

12. no more do yours:i.e., no better do your graces serve you. Adam has just said that often a person's "graces" (good qualities) only serve to make enemies of others, and now he is saying that this is true of Orlando. 15. Envenoms: poisons.

12No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,13Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.14O, what a world is this, when what is comely15Envenoms him that bears it!

ADAM16 O unhappy youth!17Come not within these doors; within this roof18The enemy of all your graces lives:19Your brotherno, no brother; yet the son20Yet not the son, I will not call him son21Of him I was about to call his father22Hath heard your praises, and this night he means

23. where you use to lie: where you usually dwell.

23To burn the lodging where you use to lie24And you within it: if he fail of that,25He will have other means to cut you off.

ADAM38But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,39The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father,40Which I did store to be my foster-nurse41When service should in my old limbs lie lame42And unregarded age in corners thrown:43Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,44Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,45Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;46And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:47Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;

ADAM69Master, go on, and I will follow thee,70To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.71From seventeen years till now almost fourscore72Here lived I, but now live here no more.73At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;